Jeremiah 8:3-6

The Valley of Slaughter

3 w Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family x in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

Sin and Treachery

4 "You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
y When men fall, do they not rise again?
If one turns away, does he not return?
 5 Why then has this people z turned away
in perpetual a backsliding?
b They hold fast to deceit;
they refuse to return.
 6 c I have paid attention and listened,
but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
saying, 'What have I done?'
Everyone turns to his own course,
d like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

  1. Cross References
    Job 3:21 - 22
    Who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures.
    Job 7:15 - 16
    So that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
    Revelation 9:6
    And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:3
    Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out ...
    Jeremiah 23:8
    But 'As the Lord lives who brought up and led t...
    Jeremiah 29:14
    I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and ...
    Jeremiah 29:18
    I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pest...
    Jeremiah 32:37
    Behold, I will gather them from all the countri...
    Daniel 9:7
    To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to u...
  3. Cross References
    Romans 11:11
    So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:24
    But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:19
    Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:6
    Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
  7. Cross References
    2 Peter 3:9
    The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
  8. Cross References
    Job 39:19 - 25
    Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
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